Ben Hur Health and Rehabilitation

With an address in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Ben Hur Health and Rehabilitation is one of four available nursing homes in the city. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Crawfordsville, which is admittedly a bit below average nationally. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection rating, which we will address in the next section.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with an A-. This is a notably better score than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home performed well in nursing. In fact, we awarded it an B- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next highest area we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 94.26752 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.37 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. Our short-term care grade is often used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Based on its score in this category, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse hours provided to its patients. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 38.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.